[ariwilson]

Editing notes on the content - the content of this blog post is clearly AI-enhanced (emdash) which is ok but the tone is not. It's super flowery and oversold - example "It was a shift from a single laser to a powerful floodlight."

[lm28469]

> this wasn't just X, it was Y

I'm not even going to bother reading the rest. Just give me the bullet points you fed the LLM at that point

[zachwills]

My process is to dictate and word vomit all of my thoughts to AI (in this case Gemini 2.5 Pro) and then refine from there. I know there's some amount of "smells like AI" in the writing, but at this point I don't think it takes away from the lessons shared.

That said, maybe it's worth it to modify things so there is less "AI sounding" verbiage. Don't want folks to write it off as "AI Slop" because of certain phrases. TBD!

[lm28469]

Once you know you're being tricked it doesn't matter how good the trick is, for me at least. I'd rather have a less coherent, typo ridden, but genuine text than this.

[zachwills]

How is it a trick to have AI organize my thoughts? It's all an accurate recount of my learnings and my experience doing what I said I did in the post. What trick is there?

[lm28469]

No matter how much you actually wrote it feels like you dumped a list of bullet points to an llm and prompted "make it an SEO optimised blog post, I'm supposed to be interested in this topic so use appropriate words"

[zachwills]

Got it. Will keep that in mind in the future; thank you!

[WhitneyLand]

Yes you’re right, it’s AI enhanced to the point of sounding not like an engineer authentically trying to communicate with other engineers.

However it’s also the direction given to the AI enhancement - it’s steered toward buzzword/hype style.

“I managed a swarm of AI agents…”? How about instead just “I ran multiple instances of Claude Code and the results seem promising”? No swarms necessary.

[zachwills]

Yea, that's a good point. Some of the wording is prob too sensational.. esp. for Hacker News. Will keep that in mind!